HOUSTON -- The next residents of the International Space Station aremaking final preparations for a May 14 launch and NASA Televisionwill provide live coverage of launch and docking.

This week, NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and his two Russiancrewmates, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer SergeiRevin, are completing their training, undergoing Soyuz spacecraft fitchecks and taking part in traditional ceremonies. Video filedocumentation of the final preparations will be broadcast starting May 10.

Live NASA TV coverage of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft launch from theBaikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan begins at 9 p.m. CDT on May 14 (May15, Baikonur time), with launch scheduled for 10:01 p.m.

The trio will arrive at the station May 16, joining Expedition 31Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency, FlightEngineer Don Pettit of NASA and Flight Engineer André Kuipers of theEuropean Space Agency, who have been aboard since December 2011.Padalka, Acaba and Revin will transition to the Expedition 32 crew inJuly and return to Earth in mid-September.